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♪ Just one

♪ Drop from

♪ The sky like the

♪ Teardrop

♪ That forms in my eyes

♪ It brings

♪ New strength

♪ To take its claim

♪ Regeneration

♪ To heal our pain

♪ Ride into the wind

♪ Until you're home again

♪ Feel it in the rain

♪ Can you find the way?

♪ Feel it in the rain

♪ Can you find the way?

♪ It's time we start to relay

♪ The wonders of our history

♪ Our breath defies

♪ The story's page

♪ The songs created

♪ The path we made

♪ Ride into the wind

♪ Until you're home again

♪ Feel it in the rain Feel it in the rain

♪ Can you find the way?

♪ The way, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Feel it in the rain The rain

♪ Can you find the way?

♪ The way, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Feel it in the rain. ♪

- There's a room.

- Thank you.

Mission Island to HQ.

Mission Island to HQ. Visibility good.

All clear. Over and out.

- Leave it off.

- What? No whistling?

- Just not that tune.

- Know what I heard on the bush telegraph?

That Missus Boss gone Darwin.

Yeah. Reckon she got a job at that Army HQ, eh?

You must be properly hurtin' for that Missus Boss.

- Shut ya damper hole, will ya?

- Well, I can see why Missus Boss gave you the boot.

- Wanna know why she gave me the boot?

- Yeah.

- 'Cause I wouldn't stop Nullah from going walkabout.

- He went walkabout?

- Yeah. I tried to explain to her what that means, but--

- See him go?

- Nah.

- So he's gone?

- Yeah. Like I told her, he went walkabout.

- But you don't know?

- Eh?

- That little fella,

he could've walked into a big hole or got eaten by a croc,

or...or what if the cops have got him?

- Don't you bloody start. He's an Aboriginal boy.

- Hey, you just hiding behind that blackfella business

so you don't get hurt.

This isn't about walkabout, is it?

Is it?

You're runnin'.

- I'm not runnin', mate. - Yes, you are, brother.

You're scared of getting your heart hurt like before,

when my sister died.

But knowing you, you probably never told Missus Boss

that you loved her, eh?

This is about that bloody barbed wire fence you've got.

The one around the garden of your heart.

You gotta have some hurt in your heart for someone

or you don't love.

You don't love.

You're not alive, brother.

You're nothing.

No dreaming. No story.

Nothing.

Hey, big mob of army fellas.

Must be diggers, eh?

They're not Aussies, mate. They're Yanks.

They're headed to Darwin.

- Once you've signed the contract,

I'll get one of the brothers

to take you out to the mission on the sloop.

You can be happily reunited with your little creamy.

No loss of pride, Lady Ashley.

- Good morning, Ivan!

- You look happy. - I am.

I get my little boy today.

Oh, and, Ivan, we're leaving the Territory tomorrow.

- Good. I need the room.

- I'll miss you too, Ivan!

Army Headquarters. How can I connect you?

Morning.

- Cath, I'm sorry I'm late. - Quick changeover, girls.

- Did you speak to Neil? - Yes.

I'm seeing him about Nullah after my shift.

- Look, I was just thinking--

- What?

- About Nullah. Mm?

What?

You have an idea? - I do.

Mission Island to HQ--

- I'm getting a signal from Mission Island.

- An unusually large air formation

bearing down on us. Visibility not--

- If you can't understand the ordinance,

how can you understand the order?

- What's happening?

- Hurry up!

Come on! Move, move, move!

- Bombs away! Free the prisoners!

- Go!

Drover! Hey! Drover!

- Goolaj, where's Missus Boss?

- She at that Army HQ, old Carney place!

- OK. Yah! Yah!

- Drover, I'll see you Faraway Downs!

- Drover!

- Callahan? Drover!

- Is she in there? Sarah Ashley!

- It's too late. - She's in there!

Out of the way!

Let me in there! Sarah!

Sarah! Let me in there!

Let me in there!

- She's a part of dreaming now! - Get out of my way!

- Go on, hit me! - Get out of my--

Go on! Hit me! It's not gonna bring her back!

- She's in there! Sarah!

- Hey, no boongs in here.

- You didn't say that, did you?

- That's how it is.

- Just because it is...

doesn't...doesn't mean it should be.

Serve him a fuckin' drink.

- Ah, what does it matter?

I've got total bloody ruin.

I'm evacuating south like everybody else.

- You're short one glass.

One...more...glass.

- Leave this place for the looters and the Japs.

Why not the boongs?

I saw her this morning,

before she went to the work.

She was so happy.

She was gonna get that...

little boy and go south.

- What about the children on Mission Island?

The creamies? They left all there.

- They left them out there?

- Safe in the hands of God.

- They left them--

They say the island was hit first.

They say no-one would have survived.

- They say a lot of things.

Brother Frank

has been trying to get back to the island,

but the Army won't give him back their sloop.

- I need help to get to the island!

Half the Jap Navy's out there, ya stupid bastard!

- I have the Lord on my side.

- I don't give a damn who's on your side!

- God works in mysterious ways, brother. Go, go, go!

Magarri, secure the boat.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you--

Thank you, Bull.

- Comin' through! Get out of the way, fellas.

Clear the corridor! Come on!

- Nobody past this point

unless you're at death's door or already through it!

You got a name?

- Ashley. Sarah Ashley.

If you can't find a doctor, get a vet! Anyone with medical--

- What did you say?

It's the operator from Army HQ.

No, there's been some mistake.

That's Cath Fletcher.

- Oh, God, it's Cath!

Oh, God, no! Sort her out.

- Oh, my God--

- Sarah...I'm sorry.

Oh, my God.

- I've got to get to Nullah. - Sarah--

- No--

- The Japs hit the mission first.

- No, I don't believe you!

- Sarah...Sarah...Sarah, look at me.

No-one can get out there.

No-one.

Let's go!

- Ivan.

Check the second dormitory.

- ok.

- Nullah.

Come on out, it's alright.

- Where are the other-- Are there other boys?

- I don't know.

Are there other boys? I don't know.

- ok.

Drover?

- Nullah.

- Drover!

Drover!

- Oh!

Hey, little fella!

We, uh...we can't say her name anymore, little mate.

Alright. Hey. Now, you listen to me.

I need your help.

Now, I'm gonna get these fellas off the island.

Now, you're gonna have to be strong. Can you do that?

- Mm-hm. - Good boy.

Alright. Go get your little mates down there, alright?

Now, listen,

we're gonna get you all off this island, alright? Alright.

Boys, we're gonna have to swim.

We have to be quiet, like a turtle. OK?

Now, I'm gonna take you home on a ship.

It's over there. You see it?

Let's go! Let's go! Quick, quick, quick!

Ivan!

Ivan, swim the big boys down to the sloop.

Use the current and drift it down

to the end of the wharf. Go!

- Drover! I can't swim 'em!

- Get on my back. I got ya. Get on my back.

Mate, it's OK, it's OK. Don't be scared.

That's it.

Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick! That's it.

Good boy. Take me too?

Hey, Drover!

Wait for me!

How many of you fellas can't actually swim?

- Oh, crikey.

- Hey.

- I take this mob walkabout. - You'll never make it.

Well, you gotta make it. You got family now.

You gotta drove this mob home, Drover.

- Good luck, brother.

- Magarri.

Come on.

- Drove 'em home, Drover.

- Sergeant! Get the men on the trucks.

We're evacuating within 15 minutes.

We rendezvous with the main convoy

at 0800 hours in Adelaide River.

Start the trucks, Sergeant Lappin.

If anyone is lagging behind,

you use whatever force is necessary.

Every single man, Lappin, and don't take no for an answer.

- You won't have to wait for us, Captain. Move!

Come on! Move!

Thanks for coming down, Mr Fletcher.

It's my awful duty to inform you

that your wife, Catherine--

- My wife is dead?

It's a funny old world, innit?

Generous to a fault.

Yeah, you know that Lady Ashley

insisted that my wife work her shift.

So that she could see some...

half-caste kid on the mission.

Now my wife's dead...

and I've lost everything.

- Oh.

I can't leave.

- Sarah, you must listen to me.

If Nullah is alive, then we will find him.

But we can't do that from inside a Japanese prison camp.

We must go south.

We will come back for him, I promise you.

I'll get you through this,

but you've got to be strong.

Fasten those boxes.

Come on, boys!

They'll be flyin' in here and blowing us up any minute!

Get on the bloody trucks!

Righto, you got the boys on those trucks,

so let's get outta here!

Come on! Get on the trucks!

- I never really belonged here.

Come on, love. Don't muck about.

- Can you hear that?

The music. Can you hear it?

- Come on, boys. There's no need to be afraid.

That's it.

Sarah, please-- - Can't you hear it?

It's children singing.

Sarah!

- What's goin' on? - Just give her another minute.

- Missus Boss!

Missus Boss! Missus Boss!

Missus Boss! Missus Boss!

- Nullah!

- Oh, Missus Boss! - Oh!

Oh!

- What did you say?

What?

- Drover.

You're alive!

- Sarah, what's going on?

I can't hold the Sergeant any longer.

Come on!

- Oh, my God, it's the children from the mission.

The last convoy leaves Darwin in a matter of minutes.

- Come on. Come on, boys.

Follow Brother Frank. Follow Brother Frank. That's it.

Come on, boys. Come on, boys, let's go.

Back to the end of the wharf

and then straight on the truck.

- Sarah.

- Ivan!

Thank you!

Thank you.

- I shall prepare your bill.

Where'd you come from?

- The good Lord has delivered us,

but we could do with a ride, Sergeant.

- Oh, I'm not Jesus Christ, but I'll give it my best shot.

Come on, kids, move it. Come on! On the trucks.

I want a third at the front and a third at the back.

- You know, when I said that no-one could get out there,

I'd forgotten about you, Drover.

Yes, he's right, you know.

With the water up, it's the safest place in the north.

These are, after all--

- Extraordinary circumstances.

- Extraordinary circumstances.

- Thank you, Emmett.

I'll see you mob in Faraway Downs!

Come, come, Captain.

Righto, that's it, they're all on.

Let's get outta here. Come on, let's go!

- You've cursed me, you little creamy.

Mr Fletcher!

Mr Fletcher.

Neil.

We gotta go.

- Go and tell Callahan there's looters everywhere.

Go and tell Callahan!

- I'll grab the keys to the car. - Righto.

- Nullah!

- Nullah!

- Nullah! No!

No!

- Nullah!

- Nullah, you alright, little mate?

Nullah, please, please.

Come on.

That's it.

- No!

Ivan! He's hurt!

You're bleeding.

Ivan, help! Get the ambulance, hurry!

Ivan, he's hurt!

He's hurt.

- It's bloody wrong-sided business,

eh, Nullah...

that gets us all in the end.

- Nullah.

- Yes?

- From now on, you're gonna be station manager, alright?

Missus Boss is gonna need you.

You can do it, alright?

That's my boy.

That's my boy.

You know, I thought I'd lost you forever.

The truth is, I can't even bloody die without you.

- Nobody's dying, Drover. Nobody's dying.

I won't have it.

And we're going to grow old together.

You stay with me.

You're going to be alright.

- Yes. Yes.

I'm gonna be alright.

And so are you.

I've lived my story.

Yours isn't over.

So make it a good one, huh?

Drover.

You stay with me. I need you.

- Sarah...

do me a favour.

- Anything. Anything, yes.

S-say my name.

Jack.

It's Jack.

J-Jack Clancy.

- Jack.

That's your name?

Jack. Jack.

- I don't recall if I ever mentioned...

that...

that I love you.

I love you.

- Oh, Jack.

My Jack.

- I love you.

- Come back, Jack, Jack, Jack...

- Here.

- And I will hear you.

♪ Sing and I will hear you

♪ No matter where you are

♪ A song to light the darkest night

♪ And guide me from afar

♪ And I will never be alone

♪ Now I know you're somewhere

♪ You're everywhere

♪ To me

♪ You're the colour

♪ In the sky

♪ A reason to believe

♪ And when the rain falls down

♪ You tell a story

♪ And I will hear you

♪ Always near you

♪ By the boab tree

♪ Lay your arms around me

♪ Like the falling rain

♪ Let the feeling drown me

♪ And life begins again

♪ And I

♪ Will never be afraid

♪ Now I know you're somewhere

♪ You're everywhere to me

♪ The warming of the sun

♪ Upon

♪ The earth beneath my feet

♪ And when

♪ The rain falls down

♪ You tell a story

♪ And I will hear you

♪ Always near you

♪ By the boab tree

♪ Hey-ey-ey

♪ Ah-ah, ahhh. ♪